Kigi

Kigi is a town and region of Bingol Province in the Eastern Anatolia area of Turkey. The chairman is Yilmaz Gunduz. The area has a populace of 3,188 out of which 1,604 live in the town of Kigi. Generally this region was managed by ious Armenian, Byzantine, Kurdish and Turkic administrations. The town turned out to be a piece of the Ottoman Empire in the mid 16^th century. There were fights here between the Russians and Ottomans amid World War I. Amid the Middle Ages, Kigi had been a mint town of the Ilkhanids. Historically a close-by iron mine was utilized however mining halted in 1820.
The principle locates in the town are the fortification, the mosque worked in 1401/02 and appointed by Pir Ali child of the Aq Qoyunlu Kutlu. But the present structure is to a great extent a reclamation from later times. The medieval Muslim tomb and bathhouse of Yazicizadeler and the remains of a church. The current area of the town was moved here after a Safavid attack in the 16^th century, the old site was close to the citadel. 53 class travelers on leading group of RMS Titanic originated from this town, surviving just a single.